Mean-Variance QTL Mapping Identifies Novel QTL for Circadian Activity and Exploratory Behavior in Mice

We illustrate, through two case studies, that “mean-variance QTL mapping”—QTL mapping that models effects on the mean and the variance simultaneously—can discover QTL that traditional interval mapping cannot. Mean-variance QTL mapping is based on the double generalized linear model, which extends th...

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Main Authors: Robert W. Corty, Vivek Kumar, Lisa M. Tarantino, Joseph S. Takahashi, William Valdar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018-12-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
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Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.118.200194